5th mo. 2014 Blog Posts (25)

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God's Game Show

Welcome to 'Over and Under' with our contestants from Team Over: Ms. Religious Right, Mr. Libertarian, and Friend Ecology; and from Team Under: Miss Silence, Mr. Independent Party, and Friend Underground Spring.

Let's start with Ms. Religious Right who argues that religion is the answer to the problems of the world - provided it's the right Religion, or the religion of the Right. In other words, over-joyed at the opportunity to take on the evils of empire; forgetting, I'm sure, the…

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Added by Clem Gerdelmann on 5th mo. 5, 2014 at 8:00am — No Comments

A Review of 'A Quaker Prayer Life' by David Johnson

Good Morning:

I recently read 'A Quaker Prayer Life' by David Johnson, published by Inner Light Books.  I found it a rewarding read, an insipring read, and a helpful work.  I posted the following review at amazon:

 

This short book, 67 pages of actual text, is an articulate, lyrical, and inspirational guide to the prayer of inward silence and stillness as practiced in the Quaker tradition.  It is a practical book rather than theological or argumentative.  That is to say…

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Added by Jim Wilson on 5th mo. 4, 2014 at 11:55am — 3 Comments

On Production

After frolicking around The Garden all morning, Adam and Eve were starving. They filled their bellies with the fruit of The Tree, and it gave them such a headache! The knowledge of good and evil throbs in the ever-branching tangle of nerves that is the human brain. And the…

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Added by Mary Colleen Klein on 5th mo. 1, 2014 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Are Quakers ready to advocate prison abolition?

Quakers have a long history of advocating for more humane prison conditions, in part stemming from their own experience of wrongful imprisonment. Are Friends ready to take the next step and call for the complete abolition of prisons? 

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Added by Matt on 5th mo. 1, 2014 at 5:48pm — 7 Comments

Becoming Beauty

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"What we do not nourish within ourselves cannot exist in the world around us because we are its microcosm. We cannot moan the loss of quality in our world and not ourselves seed…

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Added by Roger Vincent Jasaitis on 5th mo. 1, 2014 at 1:40pm — No Comments

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